interject, interlard.

put-off, n. shift, evasion, subterfuge, ruse, parry.

put off. discard, doff; delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.

put out. eject, oust, remove, evict, dispossess, dislodge; extend,
protrude; extinguish; issue, publish; dislocate; displease, offend, anger.

putter, v. potter, pother, trifle, fribble, dally, dawdle.

putting back. hindering, delay, retardation; replacement,
restoration, reinstatement.

putting in. insertion, injection, interpolation.

putting in practice. application.

putting off. delay, deferment, postponement, procrastination.

putting on. investing, investiture; assumption, arrogation;
instigation, incitement.

putting out. ejection, eviction, dispossession, expulsion, ousting;
extinguishment, extinction; dislocation.

put to flight. rout.

put-up, a. (Colloq.) arranged, predetermined.

puzzle, v. mystify, pose, nonplus, perplex, bewilder, confuse.

puzzle, n. enigma, conundrum, intricacy, maze, crux, riddle, rebus,
poser; confusion, quandary, perplexity, nonplus, bewilderment.

puzzling, a. enigmatical, perplexing, inexplicable, inscrutable,
intricate, bewildering.

pyx, n. ciborium; ostensorium, monstrance; binnacle.

Q

quack, n. charlatan, empiric, pretender, mountebank.

quack, a. empirical, charlatanic, quackish.

quackery, n. empiricism, charlatanism, charlatanry, mountebankery.

quackish, a. empirical, charlatanic.

quack medicine. nostrum.

quaggy, a. boggy, queachy, swampy, marshy, fenny.

quagmire, n. slough, swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen.

quail, n. bobwhite.

quail, v. tremble, cower, flinch, quake, blench, falter.

quaint, a. fanciful, whimsical, odd, curious, grotesque,
old-fashioned.

quake, v. quiver, tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate.

quake, n. agitation, trembling, shaking, vibration, quivering.

Quaker, n. Friend.

qualification, n. condition, restriction, modification, limitation;
endowment, ability, eligibility, capability, fitness, competency;
allowance, diminution, adaptation, mitigation, preparation.

qualified, a. modified, limited; competent, eligible, fitted,
capable.

qualify, v. modify, limit, restrict, condition; fit, prepare, equip;
modulate, vary, temper; diminish, moderate, mitigate, assuage, alleviate.

quality, n. nature, character, sort, strain, condition;
characteristic, peculiarity, trait, property, attribute, attribution,
accident; high rank, nobility, gentry, aristocracy.

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